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2 @c Copyright (C) 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
25829 | 3 @c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions. |
4 @node International, Major Modes, Frames, Top | |
5 @chapter International Character Set Support | |
6 @cindex MULE | |
7 @cindex international scripts | |
8 @cindex multibyte characters | |
9 @cindex encoding of characters | |
10 | |
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11 @cindex Celtic |
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13 @cindex Cyrillic |
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14 @cindex Czech |
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16 @cindex Hindi | |
17 @cindex Marathi | |
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18 @cindex Ethiopic |
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19 @cindex German |
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21 @cindex Hebrew |
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23 @cindex Japanese | |
24 @cindex Korean | |
25 @cindex Lao | |
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26 @cindex Latin |
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30 @cindex Slovenian |
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32 @cindex Tibetan | |
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33 @cindex Turkish |
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36 @cindex Spanish | |
25829 | 37 Emacs supports a wide variety of international character sets, |
38 including European variants of the Latin alphabet, as well as Chinese, | |
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39 Cyrillic, Devanagari (Hindi and Marathi), Ethiopic, Greek, Hebrew, IPA, |
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40 Japanese, Korean, Lao, Thai, Tibetan, and Vietnamese scripts. These features |
25829 | 41 have been merged from the modified version of Emacs known as MULE (for |
42 ``MULti-lingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs'') | |
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45 other internationalized software, such as word processors and mailers. |
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47 Emacs allows editing text with international characters by supporting |
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48 all the related activities: |
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50 @itemize @bullet |
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52 You can visit files with non-ASCII characters, save non-ASCII text, and |
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53 pass non-ASCII text between Emacs and programs it invokes (such as |
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54 compilers, spell-checkers, and mailers). Setting your language |
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55 environment (@pxref{Language Environments}) takes care of setting up the |
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56 coding systems and other options for a specific language or culture. |
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57 Alternatively, you can specify how Emacs should encode or decode text |
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58 for each command; see @ref{Specify Coding}. |
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60 @item |
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61 You can display non-ASCII characters encoded by the various scripts. |
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62 This works by using appropriate fonts on X and similar graphics |
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63 displays (@pxref{Defining Fontsets}), and by sending special codes to |
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64 text-only displays (@pxref{Specify Coding}). If some characters are |
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65 displayed incorrectly, refer to @ref{Undisplayable Characters}, which |
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66 describes possible problems and explains how to solve them. |
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69 You can insert non-ASCII characters or search for them. To do that, |
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70 you can specify an input method (@pxref{Select Input Method}) suitable |
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71 for your language, or use the default input method set up when you set |
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72 your language environment. (Emacs input methods are part of the Leim |
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73 package, which must be installed for you to be able to use them.) If |
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74 your keyboard can produce non-ASCII characters, you can select an |
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75 appropriate keyboard coding system (@pxref{Specify Coding}), and Emacs |
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77 using the @kbd{C-x 8} prefix, see @ref{Single-Byte Character Support, |
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81 The rest of this chapter describes these issues in detail. |
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84 * International Chars:: Basic concepts of multibyte characters. |
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86 * Language Environments:: Setting things up for the language you use. | |
87 * Input Methods:: Entering text characters not on your keyboard. | |
88 * Select Input Method:: Specifying your choice of input methods. | |
89 * Multibyte Conversion:: How single-byte characters convert to multibyte. | |
90 * Coding Systems:: Character set conversion when you read and | |
91 write files, and so on. | |
92 * Recognize Coding:: How Emacs figures out which conversion to use. | |
93 * Specify Coding:: Various ways to choose which conversion to use. | |
94 * Fontsets:: Fontsets are collections of fonts | |
95 that cover the whole spectrum of characters. | |
96 * Defining Fontsets:: Defining a new fontset. | |
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107 many more-or-less standard coding systems for storing files. Emacs |
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114 cases) in the @kbd{C-q} command (@pxref{Multibyte Conversion}). |
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116 @kindex C-h h | |
117 @findex view-hello-file | |
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119 @cindex @samp{?} in display |
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136 @c This is commented out because it doesn't fit here, or anywhere. |
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157 @node Enabling Multibyte | |
158 @section Enabling Multibyte Characters | |
159 | |
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162 Emacs as a whole, or for a single buffer. When multibyte characters are | |
163 disabled in a buffer, then each byte in that buffer represents a | |
164 character, even codes 0200 through 0377. The old features for | |
165 supporting the European character sets, ISO Latin-1 and ISO Latin-2, | |
166 work as they did in Emacs 19 and also work for the other ISO 8859 | |
167 character sets. | |
168 | |
169 However, there is no need to turn off multibyte character support to | |
170 use ISO Latin; the Emacs multibyte character set includes all the | |
171 characters in these character sets, and Emacs can translate | |
172 automatically to and from the ISO codes. | |
173 | |
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178 @code{find-file-literally}. @xref{Visiting}. To convert a buffer in | |
179 multibyte representation into a single-byte representation of the same | |
180 characters, the easiest way is to save the contents in a file, kill the | |
181 buffer, and find the file again with @code{find-file-literally}. You | |
182 can also use @kbd{C-x @key{RET} c} | |
183 (@code{universal-coding-system-argument}) and specify @samp{raw-text} as | |
184 the coding system with which to find or save a file. @xref{Specify | |
185 Coding}. Finding a file as @samp{raw-text} doesn't disable format | |
186 conversion, uncompression and auto mode selection as | |
187 @code{find-file-literally} does. | |
188 | |
189 @vindex enable-multibyte-characters | |
190 @vindex default-enable-multibyte-characters | |
191 To turn off multibyte character support by default, start Emacs with | |
192 the @samp{--unibyte} option (@pxref{Initial Options}), or set the | |
29107 | 193 environment variable @env{EMACS_UNIBYTE}. You can also customize |
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228 The mode line indicates whether multibyte character support is enabled | |
229 in the current buffer. If it is, there are two or more characters (most | |
230 often two dashes) before the colon near the beginning of the mode line. | |
231 When multibyte characters are not enabled, just one dash precedes the | |
232 colon. | |
233 | |
234 @node Language Environments | |
235 @section Language Environments | |
236 @cindex language environments | |
237 | |
238 All supported character sets are supported in Emacs buffers whenever | |
239 multibyte characters are enabled; there is no need to select a | |
240 particular language in order to display its characters in an Emacs | |
241 buffer. However, it is important to select a @dfn{language environment} | |
242 in order to set various defaults. The language environment really | |
243 represents a choice of preferred script (more or less) rather than a | |
244 choice of language. | |
245 | |
246 The language environment controls which coding systems to recognize | |
247 when reading text (@pxref{Recognize Coding}). This applies to files, | |
248 incoming mail, netnews, and any other text you read into Emacs. It may | |
249 also specify the default coding system to use when you create a file. | |
250 Each language environment also specifies a default input method. | |
251 | |
252 @findex set-language-environment | |
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258 the Emacs session. The supported language environments include: | |
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263 Chinese-BIG5, Chinese-CNS, Chinese-GB, Cyrillic-ALT, Cyrillic-ISO, |
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265 Greek, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Latin-1, Latin-2, Latin-3, | |
266 Latin-4, Latin-5, Latin-8 (Celtic), Latin-9 (updated Latin-1, with the | |
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325 @kindex C-h L | |
326 @findex describe-language-environment | |
327 To display information about the effects of a certain language | |
328 environment @var{lang-env}, use the command @kbd{C-h L @var{lang-env} | |
329 @key{RET}} (@code{describe-language-environment}). This tells you which | |
330 languages this language environment is useful for, and lists the | |
331 character sets, coding systems, and input methods that go with it. It | |
332 also shows some sample text to illustrate scripts used in this language | |
333 environment. By default, this command describes the chosen language | |
334 environment. | |
335 | |
336 @vindex set-language-environment-hook | |
337 You can customize any language environment with the normal hook | |
338 @code{set-language-environment-hook}. The command | |
339 @code{set-language-environment} runs that hook after setting up the new | |
340 language environment. The hook functions can test for a specific | |
341 language environment by checking the variable | |
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347 @vindex exit-language-environment-hook | |
348 Before it starts to set up the new language environment, | |
349 @code{set-language-environment} first runs the hook | |
350 @code{exit-language-environment-hook}. This hook is useful for undoing | |
351 customizations that were made with @code{set-language-environment-hook}. | |
352 For instance, if you set up a special key binding in a specific language | |
353 environment using @code{set-language-environment-hook}, you should set | |
354 up @code{exit-language-environment-hook} to restore the normal binding | |
355 for that key. | |
356 | |
357 @node Input Methods | |
358 @section Input Methods | |
359 | |
360 @cindex input methods | |
361 An @dfn{input method} is a kind of character conversion designed | |
362 specifically for interactive input. In Emacs, typically each language | |
363 has its own input method; sometimes several languages which use the same | |
364 characters can share one input method. A few languages support several | |
365 input methods. | |
366 | |
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367 The simplest kind of input method works by mapping ASCII letters |
38786 | 368 into another alphabet; this allows you to use one other alphabet |
369 instead of ASCII. The Greek and Russian input methods | |
370 work this way. | |
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372 A more powerful technique is composition: converting sequences of | |
373 characters into one letter. Many European input methods use composition | |
374 to produce a single non-ASCII letter from a sequence that consists of a | |
375 letter followed by accent characters (or vice versa). For example, some | |
376 methods convert the sequence @kbd{a'} into a single accented letter. | |
377 These input methods have no special commands of their own; all they do | |
378 is compose sequences of printing characters. | |
379 | |
380 The input methods for syllabic scripts typically use mapping followed | |
381 by composition. The input methods for Thai and Korean work this way. | |
382 First, letters are mapped into symbols for particular sounds or tone | |
383 marks; then, sequences of these which make up a whole syllable are | |
384 mapped into one syllable sign. | |
385 | |
386 Chinese and Japanese require more complex methods. In Chinese input | |
387 methods, first you enter the phonetic spelling of a Chinese word (in | |
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388 input method @code{chinese-py}, among others), or a sequence of |
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389 portions of the character (input methods @code{chinese-4corner} and |
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412 one of them selects that alternative. The keys @kbd{C-f}, @kbd{C-b}, |
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414 do the highlighting in the buffer showing the possible characters, | |
415 rather than in the echo area. | |
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421 to select one of them, use @kbd{C-n} and @kbd{C-p} to cycle through |
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423 | |
424 Sometimes it is useful to cut off input method processing so that the | |
425 characters you have just entered will not combine with subsequent | |
426 characters. For example, in input method @code{latin-1-postfix}, the | |
427 sequence @kbd{e '} combines to form an @samp{e} with an accent. What if | |
428 you want to enter them as separate characters? | |
429 | |
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430 One way is to type the accent twice; this is a special feature for |
25829 | 431 entering the separate letter and accent. For example, @kbd{e ' '} gives |
432 you the two characters @samp{e'}. Another way is to type another letter | |
433 after the @kbd{e}---something that won't combine with that---and | |
434 immediately delete it. For example, you could type @kbd{e e @key{DEL} | |
435 '} to get separate @samp{e} and @samp{'}. | |
436 | |
437 Another method, more general but not quite as easy to type, is to use | |
438 @kbd{C-\ C-\} between two characters to stop them from combining. This | |
439 is the command @kbd{C-\} (@code{toggle-input-method}) used twice. | |
440 @ifinfo | |
441 @xref{Select Input Method}. | |
442 @end ifinfo | |
443 | |
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444 @cindex incremental search, input method interference |
25829 | 445 @kbd{C-\ C-\} is especially useful inside an incremental search, |
446 because it stops waiting for more characters to combine, and starts | |
447 searching for what you have already entered. | |
448 | |
449 @vindex input-method-verbose-flag | |
450 @vindex input-method-highlight-flag | |
451 The variables @code{input-method-highlight-flag} and | |
37870 | 452 @code{input-method-verbose-flag} control how input methods explain |
453 what is happening. If @code{input-method-highlight-flag} is | |
454 non-@code{nil}, the partial sequence is highlighted in the buffer (for | |
455 most input methods---some disable this feature). If | |
456 @code{input-method-verbose-flag} is non-@code{nil}, the list of | |
457 possible characters to type next is displayed in the echo area (but | |
458 not when you are in the minibuffer). | |
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31077 | 460 @cindex Leim package |
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467 @section Selecting an Input Method | |
468 | |
469 @table @kbd | |
470 @item C-\ | |
471 Enable or disable use of the selected input method. | |
472 | |
473 @item C-x @key{RET} C-\ @var{method} @key{RET} | |
474 Select a new input method for the current buffer. | |
475 | |
476 @item C-h I @var{method} @key{RET} | |
477 @itemx C-h C-\ @var{method} @key{RET} | |
478 @findex describe-input-method | |
479 @kindex C-h I | |
480 @kindex C-h C-\ | |
481 Describe the input method @var{method} (@code{describe-input-method}). | |
31204 | 482 By default, it describes the current input method (if any). This |
483 description should give you the full details of how to use any | |
31270 | 484 particular input method. |
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486 @item M-x list-input-methods | |
487 Display a list of all the supported input methods. | |
488 @end table | |
489 | |
490 @findex set-input-method | |
491 @vindex current-input-method | |
492 @kindex C-x RET C-\ | |
493 To choose an input method for the current buffer, use @kbd{C-x | |
494 @key{RET} C-\} (@code{set-input-method}). This command reads the | |
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25829 | 496 language environment that it is meant to be used with. The variable |
497 @code{current-input-method} records which input method is selected. | |
498 | |
499 @findex toggle-input-method | |
500 @kindex C-\ | |
501 Input methods use various sequences of ASCII characters to stand for | |
502 non-ASCII characters. Sometimes it is useful to turn off the input | |
503 method temporarily. To do this, type @kbd{C-\} | |
504 (@code{toggle-input-method}). To reenable the input method, type | |
505 @kbd{C-\} again. | |
506 | |
507 If you type @kbd{C-\} and you have not yet selected an input method, | |
508 it prompts for you to specify one. This has the same effect as using | |
509 @kbd{C-x @key{RET} C-\} to specify an input method. | |
510 | |
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516 Selecting a language environment specifies a default input method for | |
517 use in various buffers. When you have a default input method, you can | |
518 select it in the current buffer by typing @kbd{C-\}. The variable | |
519 @code{default-input-method} specifies the default input method | |
520 (@code{nil} means there is none). | |
521 | |
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543 Some input methods for alphabetic scripts work by (in effect) | |
544 remapping the keyboard to emulate various keyboard layouts commonly used | |
545 for those scripts. How to do this remapping properly depends on your | |
546 actual keyboard layout. To specify which layout your keyboard has, use | |
547 the command @kbd{M-x quail-set-keyboard-layout}. | |
548 | |
549 @findex list-input-methods | |
550 To display a list of all the supported input methods, type @kbd{M-x | |
551 list-input-methods}. The list gives information about each input | |
552 method, including the string that stands for it in the mode line. | |
553 | |
554 @node Multibyte Conversion | |
555 @section Unibyte and Multibyte Non-ASCII characters | |
556 | |
557 When multibyte characters are enabled, character codes 0240 (octal) | |
558 through 0377 (octal) are not really legitimate in the buffer. The valid | |
559 non-ASCII printing characters have codes that start from 0400. | |
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568 (see above). | |
569 @end iftex | |
570 @ifinfo | |
571 (@pxref{Language Environments}). | |
572 @end ifinfo | |
573 If you do not specify a choice, the default is Latin-1. | |
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582 @node Coding Systems | |
583 @section Coding Systems | |
584 @cindex coding systems | |
585 | |
586 Users of various languages have established many more-or-less standard | |
587 coding systems for representing them. Emacs does not use these coding | |
588 systems internally; instead, it converts from various coding systems to | |
589 its own system when reading data, and converts the internal coding | |
590 system to other coding systems when writing data. Conversion is | |
591 possible in reading or writing files, in sending or receiving from the | |
592 terminal, and in exchanging data with subprocesses. | |
593 | |
594 Emacs assigns a name to each coding system. Most coding systems are | |
595 used for one language, and the name of the coding system starts with the | |
596 language name. Some coding systems are used for several languages; | |
597 their names usually start with @samp{iso}. There are also special | |
598 coding systems @code{no-conversion}, @code{raw-text} and | |
599 @code{emacs-mule} which do not convert printing characters at all. | |
600 | |
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612 characters, a coding system can perform end-of-line conversion. Emacs | |
613 handles three different conventions for how to separate lines in a file: | |
614 newline, carriage-return linefeed, and just carriage-return. | |
615 | |
616 @table @kbd | |
617 @item C-h C @var{coding} @key{RET} | |
618 Describe coding system @var{coding}. | |
619 | |
620 @item C-h C @key{RET} | |
621 Describe the coding systems currently in use. | |
622 | |
623 @item M-x list-coding-systems | |
624 Display a list of all the supported coding systems. | |
625 @end table | |
626 | |
627 @kindex C-h C | |
628 @findex describe-coding-system | |
629 The command @kbd{C-h C} (@code{describe-coding-system}) displays | |
630 information about particular coding systems. You can specify a coding | |
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633 both in the current buffer and as the defaults, and the priority list | |
634 for recognizing coding systems (@pxref{Recognize Coding}). | |
635 | |
636 @findex list-coding-systems | |
637 To display a list of all the supported coding systems, type @kbd{M-x | |
638 list-coding-systems}. The list gives information about each coding | |
639 system, including the letter that stands for it in the mode line | |
640 (@pxref{Mode Line}). | |
641 | |
642 @cindex end-of-line conversion | |
643 @cindex MS-DOS end-of-line conversion | |
644 @cindex Macintosh end-of-line conversion | |
645 Each of the coding systems that appear in this list---except for | |
646 @code{no-conversion}, which means no conversion of any kind---specifies | |
647 how and whether to convert printing characters, but leaves the choice of | |
648 end-of-line conversion to be decided based on the contents of each file. | |
649 For example, if the file appears to use the sequence carriage-return | |
650 linefeed to separate lines, DOS end-of-line conversion will be used. | |
651 | |
652 Each of the listed coding systems has three variants which specify | |
653 exactly what to do for end-of-line conversion: | |
654 | |
655 @table @code | |
656 @item @dots{}-unix | |
657 Don't do any end-of-line conversion; assume the file uses | |
658 newline to separate lines. (This is the convention normally used | |
659 on Unix and GNU systems.) | |
660 | |
661 @item @dots{}-dos | |
662 Assume the file uses carriage-return linefeed to separate lines, and do | |
663 the appropriate conversion. (This is the convention normally used on | |
36185 | 664 Microsoft systems.@footnote{It is also specified for MIME @samp{text/*} |
25829 | 665 bodies and in other network transport contexts. It is different |
666 from the SGML reference syntax record-start/record-end format which | |
667 Emacs doesn't support directly.}) | |
668 | |
669 @item @dots{}-mac | |
670 Assume the file uses carriage-return to separate lines, and do the | |
671 appropriate conversion. (This is the convention normally used on the | |
672 Macintosh system.) | |
673 @end table | |
674 | |
675 These variant coding systems are omitted from the | |
676 @code{list-coding-systems} display for brevity, since they are entirely | |
677 predictable. For example, the coding system @code{iso-latin-1} has | |
678 variants @code{iso-latin-1-unix}, @code{iso-latin-1-dos} and | |
679 @code{iso-latin-1-mac}. | |
680 | |
681 The coding system @code{raw-text} is good for a file which is mainly | |
682 ASCII text, but may contain byte values above 127 which are not meant to | |
683 encode non-ASCII characters. With @code{raw-text}, Emacs copies those | |
684 byte values unchanged, and sets @code{enable-multibyte-characters} to | |
685 @code{nil} in the current buffer so that they will be interpreted | |
686 properly. @code{raw-text} handles end-of-line conversion in the usual | |
687 way, based on the data encountered, and has the usual three variants to | |
688 specify the kind of end-of-line conversion to use. | |
689 | |
690 In contrast, the coding system @code{no-conversion} specifies no | |
691 character code conversion at all---none for non-ASCII byte values and | |
692 none for end of line. This is useful for reading or writing binary | |
693 files, tar files, and other files that must be examined verbatim. It, | |
694 too, sets @code{enable-multibyte-characters} to @code{nil}. | |
695 | |
696 The easiest way to edit a file with no conversion of any kind is with | |
697 the @kbd{M-x find-file-literally} command. This uses | |
698 @code{no-conversion}, and also suppresses other Emacs features that | |
699 might convert the file contents before you see them. @xref{Visiting}. | |
700 | |
701 The coding system @code{emacs-mule} means that the file contains | |
702 non-ASCII characters stored with the internal Emacs encoding. It | |
703 handles end-of-line conversion based on the data encountered, and has | |
704 the usual three variants to specify the kind of end-of-line conversion. | |
705 | |
706 @node Recognize Coding | |
707 @section Recognizing Coding Systems | |
708 | |
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715 Some coding systems can be recognized or distinguished by which byte | |
716 sequences appear in the data. However, there are coding systems that | |
717 cannot be distinguished, not even potentially. For example, there is no | |
718 way to distinguish between Latin-1 and Latin-2; they use the same byte | |
719 values with different meanings. | |
720 | |
721 Emacs handles this situation by means of a priority list of coding | |
722 systems. Whenever Emacs reads a file, if you do not specify the coding | |
723 system to use, Emacs checks the data against each coding system, | |
724 starting with the first in priority and working down the list, until it | |
725 finds a coding system that fits the data. Then it converts the file | |
726 contents assuming that they are represented in this coding system. | |
727 | |
728 The priority list of coding systems depends on the selected language | |
729 environment (@pxref{Language Environments}). For example, if you use | |
730 French, you probably want Emacs to prefer Latin-1 to Latin-2; if you use | |
731 Czech, you probably want Latin-2 to be preferred. This is one of the | |
732 reasons to specify a language environment. | |
733 | |
734 @findex prefer-coding-system | |
735 However, you can alter the priority list in detail with the command | |
736 @kbd{M-x prefer-coding-system}. This command reads the name of a coding | |
737 system from the minibuffer, and adds it to the front of the priority | |
738 list, so that it is preferred to all others. If you use this command | |
739 several times, each use adds one element to the front of the priority | |
740 list. | |
741 | |
742 If you use a coding system that specifies the end-of-line conversion | |
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25829 | 744 should attempt to recognize @code{iso-8859-1} with priority, and should |
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747 @vindex file-coding-system-alist | |
748 Sometimes a file name indicates which coding system to use for the | |
749 file. The variable @code{file-coding-system-alist} specifies this | |
750 correspondence. There is a special function | |
751 @code{modify-coding-system-alist} for adding elements to this list. For | |
752 example, to read and write all @samp{.txt} files using the coding system | |
753 @code{china-iso-8bit}, you can execute this Lisp expression: | |
754 | |
755 @smallexample | |
756 (modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.txt\\'" 'china-iso-8bit) | |
757 @end smallexample | |
758 | |
759 @noindent | |
760 The first argument should be @code{file}, the second argument should be | |
761 a regular expression that determines which files this applies to, and | |
762 the third argument says which coding system to use for these files. | |
763 | |
764 @vindex inhibit-eol-conversion | |
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25829 | 766 Emacs recognizes which kind of end-of-line conversion to use based on |
767 the contents of the file: if it sees only carriage-returns, or only | |
768 carriage-return linefeed sequences, then it chooses the end-of-line | |
769 conversion accordingly. You can inhibit the automatic use of | |
770 end-of-line conversion by setting the variable @code{inhibit-eol-conversion} | |
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812 @vindex auto-coding-alist | |
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815 @code{auto-coding-regexp-alist} are the strongest way to specify the |
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816 coding system for certain patterns of file names, or for files |
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819 @code{auto-coding-alist} for tar and archive files, to prevent it |
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821 archive and thinking it applies to the archive file as a whole. |
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822 Likewise, Emacs uses @code{auto-coding-regexp-alist} to ensure that |
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827 reread the file using the correct coding system by typing @kbd{C-x |
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828 @key{RET} c @var{coding-system} @key{RET} M-x revert-buffer |
38133 | 829 @key{RET}}. To see what coding system Emacs actually used to decode |
830 the file, look at the coding system mnemonic letter near the left edge | |
831 of the mode line (@pxref{Mode Line}), or type @kbd{C-h C @key{RET}}. | |
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25829 | 833 @vindex buffer-file-coding-system |
834 Once Emacs has chosen a coding system for a buffer, it stores that | |
835 coding system in @code{buffer-file-coding-system} and uses that coding | |
836 system, by default, for operations that write from this buffer into a | |
837 file. This includes the commands @code{save-buffer} and | |
838 @code{write-region}. If you want to write files from this buffer using | |
839 a different coding system, you can specify a different coding system for | |
840 the buffer using @code{set-buffer-file-coding-system} (@pxref{Specify | |
841 Coding}). | |
842 | |
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843 You can insert any possible character into any Emacs buffer, but |
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38786 | 849 Polish encoded in @code{iso-8859-2} and add some Russian words to it. |
850 When you save the buffer, Emacs cannot use the current value of | |
851 @code{buffer-file-coding-system}, because the characters you added | |
852 cannot be encoded by that coding system. | |
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854 When that happens, Emacs tries the most-preferred coding system (set |
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864 most-preferred coding system is recommended for use in MIME messages; |
38863 | 865 if not, Emacs tells you that the most-preferred coding system is |
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38133 | 870 name in response to the question.) |
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25829 | 872 @vindex sendmail-coding-system |
873 When you send a message with Mail mode (@pxref{Sending Mail}), Emacs has | |
874 four different ways to determine the coding system to use for encoding | |
875 the message text. It tries the buffer's own value of | |
876 @code{buffer-file-coding-system}, if that is non-@code{nil}. Otherwise, | |
877 it uses the value of @code{sendmail-coding-system}, if that is | |
878 non-@code{nil}. The third way is to use the default coding system for | |
879 new files, which is controlled by your choice of language environment, | |
880 if that is non-@code{nil}. If all of these three values are @code{nil}, | |
881 Emacs encodes outgoing mail using the Latin-1 coding system. | |
882 | |
883 @vindex rmail-decode-mime-charset | |
884 When you get new mail in Rmail, each message is translated | |
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25829 | 886 separate file. This uses the priority list of coding systems that you |
887 have specified. If a MIME message specifies a character set, Rmail | |
888 obeys that specification, unless @code{rmail-decode-mime-charset} is | |
889 @code{nil}. | |
890 | |
891 @vindex rmail-file-coding-system | |
892 For reading and saving Rmail files themselves, Emacs uses the coding | |
893 system specified by the variable @code{rmail-file-coding-system}. The | |
894 default value is @code{nil}, which means that Rmail files are not | |
895 translated (they are read and written in the Emacs internal character | |
896 code). | |
897 | |
898 @node Specify Coding | |
899 @section Specifying a Coding System | |
900 | |
901 In cases where Emacs does not automatically choose the right coding | |
902 system, you can use these commands to specify one: | |
903 | |
904 @table @kbd | |
905 @item C-x @key{RET} f @var{coding} @key{RET} | |
906 Use coding system @var{coding} for the visited file | |
907 in the current buffer. | |
908 | |
909 @item C-x @key{RET} c @var{coding} @key{RET} | |
910 Specify coding system @var{coding} for the immediately following | |
911 command. | |
912 | |
913 @item C-x @key{RET} k @var{coding} @key{RET} | |
914 Use coding system @var{coding} for keyboard input. | |
915 | |
916 @item C-x @key{RET} t @var{coding} @key{RET} | |
917 Use coding system @var{coding} for terminal output. | |
918 | |
919 @item C-x @key{RET} p @var{input-coding} @key{RET} @var{output-coding} @key{RET} | |
920 Use coding systems @var{input-coding} and @var{output-coding} for | |
921 subprocess input and output in the current buffer. | |
922 | |
923 @item C-x @key{RET} x @var{coding} @key{RET} | |
924 Use coding system @var{coding} for transferring selections to and from | |
925 other programs through the window system. | |
926 | |
927 @item C-x @key{RET} X @var{coding} @key{RET} | |
928 Use coding system @var{coding} for transferring @emph{one} | |
929 selection---the next one---to or from the window system. | |
930 @end table | |
931 | |
932 @kindex C-x RET f | |
933 @findex set-buffer-file-coding-system | |
934 The command @kbd{C-x @key{RET} f} (@code{set-buffer-file-coding-system}) | |
935 specifies the file coding system for the current buffer---in other | |
936 words, which coding system to use when saving or rereading the visited | |
937 file. You specify which coding system using the minibuffer. Since this | |
938 command applies to a file you have already visited, it affects only the | |
939 way the file is saved. | |
940 | |
941 @kindex C-x RET c | |
942 @findex universal-coding-system-argument | |
943 Another way to specify the coding system for a file is when you visit | |
944 the file. First use the command @kbd{C-x @key{RET} c} | |
945 (@code{universal-coding-system-argument}); this command uses the | |
946 minibuffer to read a coding system name. After you exit the minibuffer, | |
947 the specified coding system is used for @emph{the immediately following | |
948 command}. | |
949 | |
950 So if the immediately following command is @kbd{C-x C-f}, for example, | |
951 it reads the file using that coding system (and records the coding | |
952 system for when the file is saved). Or if the immediately following | |
953 command is @kbd{C-x C-w}, it writes the file using that coding system. | |
954 Other file commands affected by a specified coding system include | |
955 @kbd{C-x C-i} and @kbd{C-x C-v}, as well as the other-window variants of | |
956 @kbd{C-x C-f}. | |
957 | |
958 @kbd{C-x @key{RET} c} also affects commands that start subprocesses, | |
959 including @kbd{M-x shell} (@pxref{Shell}). | |
960 | |
961 However, if the immediately following command does not use the coding | |
962 system, then @kbd{C-x @key{RET} c} ultimately has no effect. | |
963 | |
964 An easy way to visit a file with no conversion is with the @kbd{M-x | |
965 find-file-literally} command. @xref{Visiting}. | |
966 | |
967 @vindex default-buffer-file-coding-system | |
968 The variable @code{default-buffer-file-coding-system} specifies the | |
969 choice of coding system to use when you create a new file. It applies | |
970 when you find a new file, and when you create a buffer and then save it | |
971 in a file. Selecting a language environment typically sets this | |
972 variable to a good choice of default coding system for that language | |
973 environment. | |
974 | |
975 @kindex C-x RET t | |
976 @findex set-terminal-coding-system | |
977 The command @kbd{C-x @key{RET} t} (@code{set-terminal-coding-system}) | |
978 specifies the coding system for terminal output. If you specify a | |
979 character code for terminal output, all characters output to the | |
980 terminal are translated into that coding system. | |
981 | |
982 This feature is useful for certain character-only terminals built to | |
983 support specific languages or character sets---for example, European | |
984 terminals that support one of the ISO Latin character sets. You need to | |
985 specify the terminal coding system when using multibyte text, so that | |
986 Emacs knows which characters the terminal can actually handle. | |
987 | |
988 By default, output to the terminal is not translated at all, unless | |
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992 @kindex C-x RET k | |
993 @findex set-keyboard-coding-system | |
34691 | 994 @vindex keyboard-coding-system |
25829 | 995 The command @kbd{C-x @key{RET} k} (@code{set-keyboard-coding-system}) |
34691 | 996 or the Custom option @code{keyboard-coding-system} |
25829 | 997 specifies the coding system for keyboard input. Character-code |
998 translation of keyboard input is useful for terminals with keys that | |
999 send non-ASCII graphic characters---for example, some terminals designed | |
1000 for ISO Latin-1 or subsets of it. | |
1001 | |
1002 By default, keyboard input is not translated at all. | |
1003 | |
1004 There is a similarity between using a coding system translation for | |
1005 keyboard input, and using an input method: both define sequences of | |
1006 keyboard input that translate into single characters. However, input | |
1007 methods are designed to be convenient for interactive use by humans, and | |
1008 the sequences that are translated are typically sequences of ASCII | |
1009 printing characters. Coding systems typically translate sequences of | |
1010 non-graphic characters. | |
1011 | |
1012 @kindex C-x RET x | |
1013 @kindex C-x RET X | |
1014 @findex set-selection-coding-system | |
1015 @findex set-next-selection-coding-system | |
1016 The command @kbd{C-x @key{RET} x} (@code{set-selection-coding-system}) | |
1017 specifies the coding system for sending selected text to the window | |
1018 system, and for receiving the text of selections made in other | |
1019 applications. This command applies to all subsequent selections, until | |
1020 you override it by using the command again. The command @kbd{C-x | |
1021 @key{RET} X} (@code{set-next-selection-coding-system}) specifies the | |
1022 coding system for the next selection made in Emacs or read by Emacs. | |
1023 | |
1024 @kindex C-x RET p | |
1025 @findex set-buffer-process-coding-system | |
1026 The command @kbd{C-x @key{RET} p} (@code{set-buffer-process-coding-system}) | |
1027 specifies the coding system for input and output to a subprocess. This | |
1028 command applies to the current buffer; normally, each subprocess has its | |
1029 own buffer, and thus you can use this command to specify translation to | |
1030 and from a particular subprocess by giving the command in the | |
1031 corresponding buffer. | |
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1036 @vindex file-name-coding-system | |
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25829 | 1038 The variable @code{file-name-coding-system} specifies a coding system |
1039 to use for encoding file names. If you set the variable to a coding | |
1040 system name (as a Lisp symbol or a string), Emacs encodes file names | |
1041 using that coding system for all file operations. This makes it | |
1042 possible to use non-ASCII characters in file names---or, at least, those | |
1043 non-ASCII characters which the specified coding system can encode. | |
1044 | |
1045 If @code{file-name-coding-system} is @code{nil}, Emacs uses a default | |
1046 coding system determined by the selected language environment. In the | |
1047 default language environment, any non-ASCII characters in file names are | |
1048 not encoded specially; they appear in the file system using the internal | |
1049 Emacs representation. | |
1050 | |
1051 @strong{Warning:} if you change @code{file-name-coding-system} (or the | |
1052 language environment) in the middle of an Emacs session, problems can | |
1053 result if you have already visited files whose names were encoded using | |
1054 the earlier coding system and cannot be encoded (or are encoded | |
1055 differently) under the new coding system. If you try to save one of | |
1056 these buffers under the visited file name, saving may use the wrong file | |
1057 name, or it may get an error. If such a problem happens, use @kbd{C-x | |
1058 C-w} to specify a new file name for that buffer. | |
1059 | |
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1071 @section Fontsets | |
1072 @cindex fontsets | |
1073 | |
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1078 assigned to handle a range of character codes. |
25829 | 1079 |
1080 Each fontset has a name, like a font. The available X fonts are | |
1081 defined by the X server; fontsets, however, are defined within Emacs | |
1082 itself. Once you have defined a fontset, you can use it within Emacs by | |
1083 specifying its name, anywhere that you could use a single font. Of | |
1084 course, Emacs fontsets can use only the fonts that the X server | |
1085 supports; if certain characters appear on the screen as hollow boxes, | |
1086 this means that the fontset in use for them has no font for those | |
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1087 characters.@footnote{The Emacs installation instructions have information on |
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1088 additional font support.} |
25829 | 1089 |
1090 Emacs creates two fontsets automatically: the @dfn{standard fontset} | |
1091 and the @dfn{startup fontset}. The standard fontset is most likely to | |
1092 have fonts for a wide variety of non-ASCII characters; however, this is | |
1093 not the default for Emacs to use. (By default, Emacs tries to find a | |
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1094 font that has bold and italic variants.) You can specify use of the |
25829 | 1095 standard fontset with the @samp{-fn} option, or with the @samp{Font} X |
1096 resource (@pxref{Font X}). For example, | |
1097 | |
1098 @example | |
1099 emacs -fn fontset-standard | |
1100 @end example | |
1101 | |
1102 A fontset does not necessarily specify a font for every character | |
1103 code. If a fontset specifies no font for a certain character, or if it | |
1104 specifies a font that does not exist on your system, then it cannot | |
1105 display that character properly. It will display that character as an | |
1106 empty box instead. | |
1107 | |
1108 @node Defining Fontsets | |
1109 @section Defining fontsets | |
1110 | |
1111 @vindex standard-fontset-spec | |
1112 @cindex standard fontset | |
1113 Emacs creates a standard fontset automatically according to the value | |
1114 of @code{standard-fontset-spec}. This fontset's name is | |
1115 | |
1116 @example | |
1117 -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-standard | |
1118 @end example | |
1119 | |
1120 @noindent | |
1121 or just @samp{fontset-standard} for short. | |
1122 | |
1123 Bold, italic, and bold-italic variants of the standard fontset are | |
1124 created automatically. Their names have @samp{bold} instead of | |
1125 @samp{medium}, or @samp{i} instead of @samp{r}, or both. | |
1126 | |
1127 @cindex startup fontset | |
1128 If you specify a default ASCII font with the @samp{Font} resource or | |
1129 the @samp{-fn} argument, Emacs generates a fontset from it | |
1130 automatically. This is the @dfn{startup fontset} and its name is | |
1131 @code{fontset-startup}. It does this by replacing the @var{foundry}, | |
1132 @var{family}, @var{add_style}, and @var{average_width} fields of the | |
1133 font name with @samp{*}, replacing @var{charset_registry} field with | |
1134 @samp{fontset}, and replacing @var{charset_encoding} field with | |
1135 @samp{startup}, then using the resulting string to specify a fontset. | |
1136 | |
1137 For instance, if you start Emacs this way, | |
1138 | |
1139 @example | |
1140 emacs -fn "*courier-medium-r-normal--14-140-*-iso8859-1" | |
1141 @end example | |
1142 | |
1143 @noindent | |
1144 Emacs generates the following fontset and uses it for the initial X | |
1145 window frame: | |
1146 | |
1147 @example | |
1148 -*-*-medium-r-normal-*-14-140-*-*-*-*-fontset-startup | |
1149 @end example | |
1150 | |
1151 With the X resource @samp{Emacs.Font}, you can specify a fontset name | |
1152 just like an actual font name. But be careful not to specify a fontset | |
1153 name in a wildcard resource like @samp{Emacs*Font}---that wildcard | |
38495 | 1154 specification matches various other resources, such as for menus, and |
25829 | 1155 menus cannot handle fontsets. |
1156 | |
1157 You can specify additional fontsets using X resources named | |
1158 @samp{Fontset-@var{n}}, where @var{n} is an integer starting from 0. | |
1159 The resource value should have this form: | |
1160 | |
1161 @smallexample | |
1162 @var{fontpattern}, @r{[}@var{charsetname}:@var{fontname}@r{]@dots{}} | |
1163 @end smallexample | |
1164 | |
1165 @noindent | |
1166 @var{fontpattern} should have the form of a standard X font name, except | |
1167 for the last two fields. They should have the form | |
1168 @samp{fontset-@var{alias}}. | |
1169 | |
1170 The fontset has two names, one long and one short. The long name is | |
1171 @var{fontpattern}. The short name is @samp{fontset-@var{alias}}. You | |
1172 can refer to the fontset by either name. | |
1173 | |
1174 The construct @samp{@var{charset}:@var{font}} specifies which font to | |
1175 use (in this fontset) for one particular character set. Here, | |
1176 @var{charset} is the name of a character set, and @var{font} is the | |
1177 font to use for that character set. You can use this construct any | |
1178 number of times in defining one fontset. | |
1179 | |
1180 For the other character sets, Emacs chooses a font based on | |
1181 @var{fontpattern}. It replaces @samp{fontset-@var{alias}} with values | |
1182 that describe the character set. For the ASCII character font, | |
1183 @samp{fontset-@var{alias}} is replaced with @samp{ISO8859-1}. | |
1184 | |
1185 In addition, when several consecutive fields are wildcards, Emacs | |
1186 collapses them into a single wildcard. This is to prevent use of | |
1187 auto-scaled fonts. Fonts made by scaling larger fonts are not usable | |
1188 for editing, and scaling a smaller font is not useful because it is | |
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25829 | 1191 |
1192 Thus if @var{fontpattern} is this, | |
1193 | |
1194 @example | |
1195 -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-24 | |
1196 @end example | |
1197 | |
1198 @noindent | |
1199 the font specification for ASCII characters would be this: | |
1200 | |
1201 @example | |
1202 -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-ISO8859-1 | |
1203 @end example | |
1204 | |
1205 @noindent | |
1206 and the font specification for Chinese GB2312 characters would be this: | |
1207 | |
1208 @example | |
1209 -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-gb2312*-* | |
1210 @end example | |
1211 | |
1212 You may not have any Chinese font matching the above font | |
1213 specification. Most X distributions include only Chinese fonts that | |
1214 have @samp{song ti} or @samp{fangsong ti} in @var{family} field. In | |
1215 such a case, @samp{Fontset-@var{n}} can be specified as below: | |
1216 | |
1217 @smallexample | |
1218 Emacs.Fontset-0: -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-24,\ | |
1219 chinese-gb2312:-*-*-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-gb2312*-* | |
1220 @end smallexample | |
1221 | |
1222 @noindent | |
1223 Then, the font specifications for all but Chinese GB2312 characters have | |
1224 @samp{fixed} in the @var{family} field, and the font specification for | |
1225 Chinese GB2312 characters has a wild card @samp{*} in the @var{family} | |
1226 field. | |
1227 | |
1228 @findex create-fontset-from-fontset-spec | |
1229 The function that processes the fontset resource value to create the | |
1230 fontset is called @code{create-fontset-from-fontset-spec}. You can also | |
1231 call this function explicitly to create a fontset. | |
1232 | |
1233 @xref{Font X}, for more information about font naming in X. | |
1234 | |
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1235 @node Undisplayable Characters |
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1236 @section Undisplayable Characters |
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1238 Your terminal may be unable to display some non-ASCII |
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1239 characters. Most non-windowing terminals can only use a single |
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1240 character set (use the variable @code{default-terminal-coding-system} |
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1241 (@pxref{Specify Coding}) to tell Emacs which one); characters which |
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1242 can't be encoded in that coding system are displayed as @samp{?} by |
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1243 default. |
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1244 |
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1245 Windowing terminals can display a broader range of characters, but |
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1246 you may not have fonts installed for all of them; characters that have |
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1247 no font appear as a hollow box. |
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1249 If you use Latin-1 characters but your terminal can't display |
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1250 Latin-1, you can arrange to display mnemonic ASCII sequences |
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1251 instead, e.g.@: @samp{"o} for o-umlaut. Load the library |
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1252 @file{iso-ascii} to do this. |
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1255 If your terminal can display Latin-1, you can display characters |
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1256 from other European character sets using a mixture of equivalent |
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1257 Latin-1 characters and ASCII mnemonics. Use the Custom option |
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1258 @code{latin1-display} to enable this. The mnemonic ASCII |
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1259 sequences mostly correspond to those of the prefix input methods. |
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1261 @node Single-Byte Character Support |
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1262 @section Single-byte Character Set Support |
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1264 @cindex European character sets | |
1265 @cindex accented characters | |
1266 @cindex ISO Latin character sets | |
1267 @cindex Unibyte operation | |
1268 The ISO 8859 Latin-@var{n} character sets define character codes in | |
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1269 the range 0240 to 0377 octal (160 to 255 decimal) to handle the |
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1270 accented letters and punctuation needed by various European languages |
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1271 (and some non-European ones). If you disable multibyte characters, |
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1272 Emacs can still handle @emph{one} of these character codes at a time. |
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1273 To specify @emph{which} of these codes to use, invoke @kbd{M-x |
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1274 set-language-environment} and specify a suitable language environment |
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1275 such as @samp{Latin-@var{n}}. |
25829 | 1276 |
1277 For more information about unibyte operation, see @ref{Enabling | |
1278 Multibyte}. Note particularly that you probably want to ensure that | |
1279 your initialization files are read as unibyte if they contain non-ASCII | |
1280 characters. | |
1281 | |
1282 @vindex unibyte-display-via-language-environment | |
1283 Emacs can also display those characters, provided the terminal or font | |
1284 in use supports them. This works automatically. Alternatively, if you | |
1285 are using a window system, Emacs can also display single-byte characters | |
1286 through fontsets, in effect by displaying the equivalent multibyte | |
1287 characters according to the current language environment. To request | |
1288 this, set the variable @code{unibyte-display-via-language-environment} | |
1289 to a non-@code{nil} value. | |
1290 | |
1291 @cindex @code{iso-ascii} library | |
1292 If your terminal does not support display of the Latin-1 character | |
1293 set, Emacs can display these characters as ASCII sequences which at | |
1294 least give you a clear idea of what the characters are. To do this, | |
1295 load the library @code{iso-ascii}. Similar libraries for other | |
1296 Latin-@var{n} character sets could be implemented, but we don't have | |
1297 them yet. | |
1298 | |
1299 @findex standard-display-8bit | |
1300 @cindex 8-bit display | |
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1301 Normally non-ISO-8859 characters (decimal codes between 128 and 159 |
25829 | 1302 inclusive) are displayed as octal escapes. You can change this for |
36185 | 1303 non-standard ``extended'' versions of ISO-8859 character sets by using the |
25829 | 1304 function @code{standard-display-8bit} in the @code{disp-table} library. |
1305 | |
28552 | 1306 There are several ways you can input single-byte non-ASCII |
25829 | 1307 characters: |
1308 | |
1309 @itemize @bullet | |
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1319 Custom option @code{keyboard-coding-system} to specify which coding |
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1320 system your keyboard uses (@pxref{Specify Coding}). Enabling this |
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1321 feature will probably require you to use @kbd{ESC} to type Meta |
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1322 characters; however, on a Linux console or in @code{xterm}, you can |
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1323 arrange for Meta to be converted to @kbd{ESC} and still be able type |
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1324 8-bit characters present directly on the keyboard or using |
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1325 @kbd{Compose} or @kbd{AltGr} keys. @xref{User Input}. |
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25829 | 1327 @item |
1328 You can use an input method for the selected language environment. | |
1329 @xref{Input Methods}. When you use an input method in a unibyte buffer, | |
1330 the non-ASCII character you specify with it is converted to unibyte. | |
1331 | |
1332 @kindex C-x 8 | |
1333 @cindex @code{iso-transl} library | |
31077 | 1334 @cindex compose character |
1335 @cindex dead character | |
25829 | 1336 @item |
1337 For Latin-1 only, you can use the | |
1338 key @kbd{C-x 8} as a ``compose character'' prefix for entry of | |
1339 non-ASCII Latin-1 printing characters. @kbd{C-x 8} is good for | |
1340 insertion (in the minibuffer as well as other buffers), for searching, | |
1341 and in any other context where a key sequence is allowed. | |
1342 | |
1343 @kbd{C-x 8} works by loading the @code{iso-transl} library. Once that | |
1344 library is loaded, the @key{ALT} modifier key, if you have one, serves | |
1345 the same purpose as @kbd{C-x 8}; use @key{ALT} together with an accent | |
1346 character to modify the following letter. In addition, if you have keys | |
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1347 for the Latin-1 ``dead accent characters,'' they too are defined to |
25829 | 1348 compose with the following character, once @code{iso-transl} is loaded. |
28552 | 1349 Use @kbd{C-x 8 C-h} to list the available translations as mnemonic |
1350 command names. | |
1351 | |
31077 | 1352 @item |
28552 | 1353 @cindex @code{iso-acc} library |
31077 | 1354 @cindex ISO Accents mode |
1355 @findex iso-accents-mode | |
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(Single-Byte Character Support): Modify iso-accents-mode index entry.
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1356 @cindex Latin-1, Latin-2 and Latin-3 input mode |
38133 | 1357 For Latin-1, Latin-2 and Latin-3, @kbd{M-x iso-accents-mode} enables |
1358 a minor mode that works much like the @code{latin-1-prefix} input | |
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1359 method, but does not depend on having the input methods installed. This |
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Clarify undisplayable characters, --unibyte, locales.
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1360 mode is buffer-local. It can be customized for various languages with |
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1361 @kbd{M-x iso-accents-customize}. |
25829 | 1362 @end itemize |